No Time to Think

<br>In death, you face life with a child and a wife<br><br>Who sleep-walks through your dreams into walls.<br><br>Youre a soldier of mercy, youre cold and you curse,<br><br>&quot;he who cannot be trusted must fall.&quot;<br><br><br><br>Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety.<br><br>You fight for the throne and you travel alone<br><br>Unknown as you slowly sink<br><br>And theres no time to think.<br><br><br><br>In the federal city you been blown and shown pity,<br><br>In secret, for pieces of change.<br><br>The empress attracts you but oppression distracts you<br><br>And it makes you feel violent and strange.<br><br><br><br>Memory, ecstasy, tyranny, hypocrisy<br><br>Betrayed by a kiss on a cool night of bliss<br><br>In the valley of the missing link<br><br>And you have no time to think.<br><br><br><br>Judges will haunt you, the country priestess will want you<br><br>Her worst is better than best.<br><br>Ive seen all these decoys through a set of deep turquoise eyes<br><br>And I feel so depressed.<br><br><br><br>China doll, alcohol, duality, mortality.<br><br>Mercury rules you and destiny fools you<br><br>Like the plague, with a dangerous wink<br><br>And theres no time to think.<br><br><br><br>Your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid you<br><br>Where the lion lies down with the lamb.<br><br>Id have paid off the traitor and killed him much later<br><br>But thats just the way that I am.<br><br><br><br>Paradise, sacrifice, mortality, reality.<br><br>But the magician is quicker and his game<br><br>Is much thicker than blood and blacker than ink<br><br>And theres no time to think.<br><br><br><br>Anger and jealousys all that he sells us,<br><br>Hes content when youre under his thumb.<br><br>Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him<br><br>To survive it you play deaf and dumb.<br><br><br><br>Equality, liberty, humility, simplicity.<br><br>You glance through the mirror and theres eyes staring clear<br><br>At the back of your head as you drink<br><br>And theres no time to think.<br><br><br><br>Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow<br><br>Will offer their heads for a prayer.<br><br>You cant find no salvation, you have no expectations<br><br>Anytime, anyplace, anywhere.<br><br><br><br>Mercury, gravity, nobility, humility.<br><br>You know you cant keep her and the water gets deeper<br><br>That is leading you onto the brink<br><br>But theres no time to think.<br><br><br><br>Youve murdered your vanity, buried your sanity<br><br>For pleasure you must now resist.<br><br>Lovers obey you but they cannot sway you<br><br>Theyre not even sure you exist.<br><br><br><br>Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism.<br><br>Fools making laws for the breaking of jaws<br><br>And the sound of the keys as they clink<br><br>But theres no time to think.<br><br><br><br>The bridge that you travel on goes to the babylon girl<br><br>With the rose in her hair.<br><br>Starlight in the east and youre finally released<br><br>Youre stranded but with nothing to share.<br><br><br><br>Loyalty, unity, epitome, rigidity.<br><br>You turn around for one real last glimpse of camille<br><br>neath the moon shinin bloody and pink<br><br>And theres no time to think.<br><br><br><br>Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you<br><br>But no, you will not be deceived.<br><br>Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt,<br><br>You can give but you cannot receive.<br><br><br><br>No time to choose when the truth must die,<br><br>No time to lose or say goodbye,<br><br>No time to prepare for the victim thats there,<br><br>No time to suffer or blink<br><br>And no time to think.